It touches up on almost everything. Some are more in-depth than others, in some cases you may feel that the discussion is a bit advanced. It is a bit heady but really gives a lot of serious information. I heard that Metropolitan Kallistos' book is better for beginners. But if you feel you want a serious overview, this might be better.

A sort of apophatic approach is taken in the book, based on the podcast on AFR, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. He goes through many religions and then sects and cults giving a point by point comparative religions study. It's an enjoyable and easy read.

Pomozansky when you are ready for a heavier book.

And it is definitely true that the services are the best, most experiential way to understand the theology. A good sit-down with a priest would help too.

Attend as many Orthodox services (Divine Liturgy, Vespers, Matins, etc) as you can over a year, keeping your eyes and ears open, and you'll learn just about all you need.

This can not be overstated!!!

...unless the only Orthodox churches accessible serve mostly or exclusively in a foreign language. But even then, attending services and actually making contact with an Orthodox priest is much more productive than reading on its own.

A sort of apophatic approach is taken in the book, based on the podcast on AFR, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. He goes through many religions and then sects and cults giving a point by point comparative religions study. It's an enjoyable and easy read.

Pomozansky when you are ready for a heavier book.

And it is definitely true that the services are the best, most experiential way to understand the theology. A good sit-down with a priest would help too.

Highly recommended!

I went through a bunch of stuff on Ancient Faith Radio. If you commute to and from work and if you have a smartphone with a decent data plan or you can just download it at home and put it in you mobile music player, you can listen to the following:

1. At the intersection of East and West - all are excellent intros, but at the very least go through the discussion on the 7 Ecumenical Councils2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy - listen to all of them3. The Illumined Heart - this is a radio talkshow format podcast where there are guests who would discuss a topic. There are a lot of material here and you can just go and look for the subjects that interest you. My being ex-Roman Catholic, currently Eastern Catholic, I listend to the interviews of Roman and Eastern Catholic converts. You can also listen to the interview with Met. Kallistos.

If you looked at my last thread, I'm considering becoming an Eastern Orthodox Christian.

But it's rather hard to find a lot of information on Doctrine and Theology. Is there anything I could read or look up for information?

Attend as many Orthodox services (Divine Liturgy, Vespers, Matins, etc) as you can over a year, keeping your eyes and ears open, and you'll learn just about all you need.

This, this, this and this.

I know you still want book recommendations, and I'll give you the one I think is the absolute best on the subject, but at the end of the day, I became Orthodox when I stopped worrying about reading and just started living the Sacramental Life of the Church. Attend all the services you can, listen closely to the hymnody and the services, and you will learn everything you need. It's all there.

The best book I have read on Orthodox theology and practice is Father Anthony Coniaris' "Introducing The Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life."

A sort of apophatic approach is taken in the book, based on the podcast on AFR, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick. He goes through many religions and then sects and cults giving a point by point comparative religions study. It's an enjoyable and easy read.

Pomozansky when you are ready for a heavier book.

And it is definitely true that the services are the best, most experiential way to understand the theology. A good sit-down with a priest would help too.

Highly recommended!

I went through a bunch of stuff on Ancient Faith Radio. If you commute to and from work and if you have a smartphone with a decent data plan or you can just download it at home and put it in you mobile music player, you can listen to the following:

1. At the intersection of East and West - all are excellent intros, but at the very least go through the discussion on the 7 Ecumenical Councils2. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy - listen to all of them3. The Illumined Heart - this is a radio talkshow format podcast where there are guests who would discuss a topic. There are a lot of material here and you can just go and look for the subjects that interest you. My being ex-Roman Catholic, currently Eastern Catholic, I listend to the interviews of Roman and Eastern Catholic converts. You can also listen to the interview with Met. Kallistos.

Let me add to this Stephen Robinson and Bill Gould's excellent "Our Life in Christ" podcasts. They are not making any new ones, but the archives are there, and they are awesome.

Android Rewster: As somebody who is currently on the journey as well, I'll give you a couple of tips from my experience.

A book that I have found to be very helpful is one already recommended: Father Anthony Coniaris' Introducing The Orthodox Church: Its Faith and Life. It combines easy reading with very practical teachings. While it doesn't cover any particular topic greatly in-depth, it hits on everything important to Orthodoxy.

I have Kallistos Ware's book The Orthodox Church to be enlightening about who the Orthodox are. His book The Orthodox Way was a very good read for discovering more about doctrine. It is more in depth than Fr Anthony Coniaris' book, but doesn't cover as many topics.

Like others have said here, one of the best ways to learn it is to simply attend Divine Liturgy at a parish and get to know a priest. Schedule meetings with him and ask lots of questions. That's what I've done and have found, as others have said, that when it stops being about learning about Orthodoxy and more about living Orthodoxy, you may find yourself drawn to it. I have.

-Remember Thy First Love (Revelation 2:4-5): The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of Elder Sophrony -The Enlargement of the Heart: Be ye also enlarged (2 Corinthians 6:13) in the Theology of Saint Silouan the Athonite and Elder Sophrony of Essex-Christ, Our Way and Our Life: A Presentation of the Theology of Archimandrite Sophrony-The Hidden Man of the Heart (1 Peter 3:4): The Cultivation of the Heart in Orthodox Christian Anthropology